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Faculty Bios

Students in the Classical Studies post-baccalaureate program have the opportunity to engage faculty from many related departments at Penn. In particular, the following Classical Studies Department faculty members have taught post-baccalaureate courses and/or been post-baccalaureate advisors over the past few years.

Kimberly D. Bowes

Associate Professor of Classical Studies

Education

PhD, Princeton University, 2002

Visiting Fellow, Harvard University, 2001

Master of Arts, Courtauld Institute of Art, 1993

Bachelor of Arts, Williams College, 1992

Research and teaching interests

Mediterranean archaeology

Late antiquity

Selected publications

Houses and Society in the Later Roman Empire (2010)

Private Worship, Public Values and Religious Change in Late Antiquity (2008)

Between Text and Territory: Survey and Excavation in the terra of San Vincenzo al Volturno, ed. with Richard Hodges and Karen Francis (2007)

Hispania in Late Antiquity: Current Approaches, ed. with Michael Kulikowski (2005)

Cynthia Damon

Professor of Classical Studies

Education

AM (honorary), Amherst College, 2004

PhD, Classics, Stanford University, 1990

Master of Arts, Classics, Boston College, 1984

Bachelor of Arts, History, Stanford University, 1979

Research and teaching interests

Latin literature

Historiography

Selected publications

Tacitus, Annals (2012)

Caesar's Civil War (2006), with William Batstone

Tacitus, Histories, Book I (2003)

The Mask of the Parasite: A Pathology of Roman Patronage (1997)

Work in progress

C. Iuli Caesaris Commentariorum libri III de bello civili

Studies on the Text of Caesar's Bellum Civile (OUP, forthcoming)

Recent courses

Undergraduate

Thucydides and Euripides

Caesar and Lucan, Horace's Satires

Writing History

Age of Caesar

Graduate

Tacitus

Caesar

Prose Composition, Text and Context: History of Latin Literature

Livy and Polybius (with J. McInerney)

Roman Letters (with C. Grey)

Suetonius and the Historia Augusta (with C. Grey)

Campbell Grey

Associate Professor of Classical StudiesChair, Ancient History Graduate Group

Education

Master of Environmental Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2014

PhD, Classics, St John's College, Cambridge, 2002

Master of Philosophy, Ancient History, University of Sydney, 1997

Bachelor of Arts, Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Auckland, 1994

Research and teaching interests

Roman social, economic, agrarian and legal history, particularly in the late antique period

Nonelite and marginal populations, especially in rural contexts

Disasters, their causes, impacts, implications and aftermaths

Interactions between human populations and their physical environments

Legacies of ancient Rome in American cultural, political and intellectual discourses

Introductions to new translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey by Stanley Lombardo (1997, 2000)

Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey (1987, 2nd edition 2011)

"Tragic Bystanders: Choruses and Other Survivors in the Plays of Sophocles," in J. R. C. Cousland and James R. Hume, edd. The Play of Texts and Fragments: Essays in Honour of Martin Cropp, (Leiden: Brill, 2009): 321–333

"The Memorable Past: Antiquity and Girlhood in the Works of Mary Butts and Naomi Mitchison,"Remaking the Classics: Literature, Genre and Media in Britain, 1800-2000, ed. Christopher Stray (London 2007) 125-139

"Farming, Authority, and Truth-Telling in the Greek Tradition," in City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Antiquity, ed. Ineke Sluiter and Ralph Rosen (2006) 93-118

"The Daughters of Cadmus: Chorus and Characters in Euripides' Bacchae and Ion," in Greek Drama III: Essays in Honour of Kevin Lee, ed. John Davidson, Frances Muecke, and Peter Wilson (London 2006) 99-112

“’God is with Italy now’. Pro-Roman Jews in the First Century CE,” in Benedikt Eckhardt (ed.), Groups, Normativity, and Rituals. Jewish Identity and Politics between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba. Leiden et al.: Brill 2011, 157-187